This week’s MyCup O’Joe was an interesting read, for all those who dig some old-school comics artistry.
Among other things, Quesada not only talked about collaborating with Stan Lee on a 10-page story for Amazing Spider-Man #600, but also discussed Gene Colan’s involvement on Captain America #601, which used to be the Captain America Annual. (Marvel has a pretty cool interview with Ed Brubaker up on their web site about that, right here.)
Some other interesting quotes:
Regarding “hate” on Marvel Divas: Marvel Divas…if it’s for you, great. If it’s not for you, okay, that’s fine as well. But I just don’t get how people want to hate on things without having read a stitch of it.. What have you read of it? What have you seen of it? If you want to hate it after the fact, fine. Hate on it. Maybe we didn’t give you a book you loved. That’ll happen. There are hits, there are misses. But if people want to hate something before they’ve read it, before they’ve seen anything of it… okay, knock yourself out.
But what about Spider-Woman?: The reason for the delay on Spider-Woman is quite simple. As we’ve announced previously, that series is going to debut as the first of our all-new Motion Comics, a major digital initiative that we believe is going to become a bigger and bigger part of our publishing program as more and more of the world turns to digital platforms for their entertainment. The drawback with working in a new medium like this is that there’s plenty of experimentation. Everything is new, and so little has been done before, so it’s taking us all a bit longer to work out the kinks than it normally would, and we’d rather delay and get it right than rush it along being only a fraction of what it could be.
For me, however, I think my favorite part of the interview was when Joe Q revealed some artwork for some upcoming Noir titles. If my eyes are not deceiving me, is the fourth page a new Noir version of… Luke Cage?
April 24th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Well, my reply to his comment on Marvel Divas probably won’t make it past the moderators
April 24th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Maybe some of us might give Marvel Divas a chance if it didn’t sound like anything more than whoring of some of Marvel’s female characters.
And is it just me, or has Joe Q been a little pissy lately, what with the above quote and the whole garbage with Twitter?
April 25th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
I honestly think that Joey Q is starting to feel the strain of management. But, unlike Jim Lee, he can’t just sell his company and go back to what he does best.
April 26th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
The issue is absolutely not with the artistic quality of Marvel Divas, or with how much it pleases me as a piece of fictional entertainment. It’s an issue with how women are represented in mainstream comics. Based on the solicit, the announcement, and the cover art, Marvel Divas is continuing down a direction that objectifies and marginalizes women without doing much of anything else for them.
April 27th, 2009 at 11:26 am
People only whine about preview complaints when they are dead-on.
April 27th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I’ll just add my voice on to what has already been said. Q’s myopia is really getting to him. From the comments I read here and on (several) other sites, the vast majority of complaints weren’t about the quality of the miniseries. They were about the derogatory, patronizing tone of the solicitation/comments and portrayal of women in super-hero comics in general.
The solicitation was patently offensive to all of Marvel’s readers, except maybe Flash Thompson and Guy Gardner types.
Personally, from what I can tell, DC’s Power Girl is going to wipe the floor, not just creatively and in projecting a strong image for girls, but also in the cheesecake department.